The city sleeps. The carry is still Friday.

Friday's cash session lifted the Dow 49,447.43, the Nasdaq Composite 24,468.48, and kept small caps in the lead with the Russell 2000 at 2,776.90.

The same AP index roundup carried by WKYC prints the Dow at +1.8%, the Nasdaq at +1.5%, and the Russell 2000 at +2.1% for the session.

“A freer flow of oil” — Hormuz headlines and a one-day crude air-pocket.

Oil prices dropped back to where they were in the early days of the Iran war, and U.S. stocks raced to another record. A freer flow of oil could take pressure off prices not only for gasoline but also for groceries and all kinds of other products. Oil prices fell 9%.

The Fed's April calendar is already counting down to the two-day FOMC and the March minutes drop.

Washington is mostly quiet on Sunday, but the Board's published calendar still anchors the week: March FOMC minutes at 2:00 p.m. ET on April 8 (already released by the time you read this archive note), and the live two-day FOMC meeting on April 28-29 with a press conference listed for day two.

The S&P 500 finished the week 309.17 points higher — a 4.5% advance in the AP's week-to-date table.

The same article also prints a year-to-date gain of 280.56 points, or 4.1%, for the benchmark through Friday's close.

Russell 2000 adds 57.30 points (+2.1%) — leadership over the megacap tape on Friday.

The AP/WKYC tables show the small-cap index closing at 2,776.90 after a +2.1% session — a wider daily percentage than the +1.2% posted by the S&P 500.

Bar width maps 2.1% (Russell) to the full track versus 1.2% (S&P) as 1.2 / 2.1 ≈ 57% of the Russell's daily impulse.

Friday's 84.78-point pop was roughly a quarter of the entire weekly 309.17-point gain.

Patriots' Day is Monday, April 20, 2026 — state offices go quiet while the tape stays on.

Cboe Volatility Index — last daily observation in the St. Louis Fed feed is 17.94 on April 16, 2026.

FRED's VIXCLS series is a convenient check on fear gauges when futures are thin; it may lag a live Friday cash print, so treat it as the latest posted close in this feed rather than a real-time Sunday night quote.

10-year Treasury yield last posted at 4.32% on April 16 in the same FRED daily series.

With cash bonds also offline for the weekend snapshot, the DGS10 observation is the cleanest government-published handle for where benchmark nominal rates rested mid-month.

Bitcoin spot check: CoinGecko's public API printed about $75,539 per coin at generation time.

Crypto never takes a Patriots Day breather; the figure is a single JSON snapshot from CoinGecko's /simple/price endpoint, useful as a cross-asset temperature read while equities are dark.

BEA lists advance Q1 2026 GDP for April 30 — the next big growth print after the April cross-currents clear.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis release calendar shows “GDP (Advance Estimate), 1st Quarter 2026” on April 30, the same day it schedules personal income and PCE tables — a stacked macro morning once trading resumes.

Senate Banking still lists an April 14, 2026 nomination hearing touching the Federal Reserve Board bench.

The hearing notice remains on the committee site for archival reference; it is part of the longer-run governance story around the Fed even when markets are closed.

IMF World Economic Outlook releases anchor the offshore macro narrative between U.S. holiday sessions.

When domestic cash markets pause, the IMF's WEO publication hub is the kind of slow-burn reference traders re-read for growth and inflation baselines ahead of the next Fed meeting.

Census Bureau economic indicators calendar — manufacturing and trade updates still populate the spring queue.

The Census economic-indicators calendar view is the authoritative place to confirm precise release times for business inventories, retail, and factory orders once the holiday week ends.

FRED's first 2026 S&P 500 print was 6,858.47 on January 2 versus Friday's 7,126.06 cash close in the AP table.